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<text id=91TT0339>
<title>
Feb. 18, 1991: American Notes:Drugs
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
Feb. 18, 1991 The War Comes Home
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
NATION, Page 45
American Notes
DRUGS
Just Dying For a Fix
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<p> What seemed like ordinary bags of heroin hit the bazaars of
the South Bronx early this month. Dubbed "Tango & Cash," the
product sold for $10 a bag. By the end of last week, the drug
had killed six people in New York, seven in New Jersey and two
in Connecticut; 213 overdosed addicts wound up in emergency
rooms. Preliminary tests indicate that the drug is fentanyl,
a tranquilizer described as "150 to 6,000 times more potent
than morphine."
</p>
<p> Police took extraordinary steps to warn addicts, cruising
blighted neighborhoods in squad cars. "If you have used this
drug," they announced over their loudspeakers, "seek medical
attention immediately!" Ironically, these efforts may have led
addicts to crave it all the more. "Hard-core users ask how they
could get hold of it. They figure those who died made a
mistake," says Christopher Policano, a spokesman at Phoenix
House, a drug rehabilitation center.
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</body></article>
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